Peanutty wrote:Only advice I can give is to take advantage of Fish of the Day spawns and to fish in moderation. I always try to read or do something else on the side while fishing, to just keep it relaxed as possible.

This, and try not to focus too much on the mentality "Another fish but NO CARP YET". I've found best just to fish and not to think the carp, it will come when it will come and stressing over it on each cast just makes things worse - again, for me at least.

Zingela wrote:Caught the first Tiny Carp I set out for--Tiny Red Carp. Followed some advice and fished from the small lake near Niuzao Temple, ended up catching mine in open water there after maybe two hours of fishing. I wasn't counting casts (sorry!), but I was using the Pandaren Fishing Charm and the item appeared as a secondary fish. I'll try for the other three later tonight.

How are people getting secondary fish from open water? I thought the charm only granted extra fish from pools?

I think the point being when you catch the carp it's the second fish caught. ie. Golden Carp plus your preciousssss...

Last night I finally got the red and green carps. I did about 400 casts in the fish of the day pools for the green as it was Krasarand Paddlefish and nada. This followed two separate days I did about the same number of casts in green carp fish of the day pools. After finishing the 20 ironpaw tokens, I made some +150 fishing lures and went over to Fish Felreed's dock. Fishing hat, pole and +150 lure on I caught the green carp from open water about 40 casts later.The tiny red carp I'd tried fishing in open water at Rikkitun Village previously with no luck. This time I headed to the lake that the fish dude tamer stands by and used my +150 lures along with my hat and pole. I almost didn't notice when I caught it about 60 casts later.

I know it's just anecdotal evidence, but it certainly feels like there's something to getting your fishing up past the 'no junk' skill level of a zone.

I now have all 4 tiny carp and will not be fishing again for a very very long time.I caught all 4 in open water at the spots posted by Chibipriest on the official WoW battle pets forum.

White was my first catch that I made an earlier post on in this thread, about 150-200 casts by the temple of the white tiger.Blue on the day I caught it was about 120 casts by the alliance shrine in Vale.Green came shortly after Blue at Fish Fellreed's dock about 150 casts.Red felt like it took forever, I had to take a break and eat some lunch between starting and actually catching it. Probably close too 400 casts over by Niuzao temple.

These totals are completely ignoring any fishing done prior to the play sessions in which I caught them. In total I probably caught around 2200 fish, maybe more, before getting all my tiny carp.Catching the last one was a very satisfying task in WoW and a good way to get a lifetime supply of MoP fish!

*Edit - All done with only my +30 bonus from my fishing pole, no hat, no lure, nothing else boosting it. Did it on my PvE alt so I could watch Netflix and fish without worry.

I recommend if you're going to fish these in open water to stock up on some Heat-Treated Spinning Lures. +150 fishing is a great boost for 15 minutes, and they aren't very expensive to make if you have a miner or engineer.

I just want to add that I caught 2 Green Carps while waiting for Galleon to spawn (cannot learn the second one). Both on alts who don't have the fishing charm, both in open water, and at lower skill level (under 400). The carps ALWAYS show up as secondary to your main catch, regardless of whether or not you are using the charm. So that seems to disprove the whole theory about how the charm helps to catch them.